We craft and tell stories because we’ve stood on the uncertain edge between the waking world and our imagination, between enchantment and fear. And we remember other stories that help us build our own stories, scraps of lumber and fragments of narrative we gather together to make stories for ourselves.
August 20, 2010 --- Dinosaur skeletons in the desert --- Image by © MARK GARLICK/Science Photo Library/Corbis
Every day at 5.30 p.m., just outside the university campus where I live, someone blows up a mountain.
I wonder whether, as you went through the rolling year, you paused now and then to ask, “Whatever happened to Unsettling Wonder? Looked like they had some pretty cool stuff planned, and then suddenly there…Continue Reading
There are good wizards, there are evil wizards, and then, there are bad wizards—the kind that create the vorpal apple corer, the ten-thousand-league piano dolly, the leggings of a hundred insects. They live in the…Continue Reading
Editors Note: I wrote this over at my personal blog, and then thought you all might enjoy it, too. It’s a quirky retrospective on Volume 1, as well as a fitting way to end this…Continue Reading
On my bookshelf right now, I have a magical volume sitting in pride of place: an advance copy of Sister Fox’s Field Guide to the Writing Life, by Jane Yolen. And believe me: it’s beautiful.…Continue Reading
Two of our editors, John Patrick Pazdziora and Defne Çizakça, are being interviewed by the remarkable Kate Wolford at Enchanted Conversation. They’re talking about a new fairy tale anthology that a lot of Unsettling Wonder…Continue Reading
The new issue of Unsettling Wonder is now available. On the topic of ‘Fairy Brides’, this issue is strange and angular, taking some unexpected turns along lesser-known paths of folk and fairy lore. We’ve got…Continue Reading
